wormdelivre asked:
What do you mean you hatched an egg you bought at the SUPER MARKET
merosmenagerie answered:
Ohohoho
So there’s this company in the UK, right. They brand themselves on producing fancy free range eggs and as part of that they have breed information written on the carton.
I did some snooping and found that every miracle news story of a supermarket egg hatching in the UK traced back to duck eggs, specifically the Braddock White duck eggs produced by this one company for the supermarket Waitrose.
And one day my mum brings them home and says “I bought these to eat but aren’t they the ones that hatch?”
And it’s spring and I’m hatching a ton this year so in they went.
On candling we had three fertile eggs! That’s a fertility of 50% - the same as shipped eggs from a breeder!
Hatch day comes and we get 2 ducklings, Curie and Becquerel. Sadly, Curie contracts duck septicaemia from an infected navel and doesn’t make it, but Becquerel is a healthy bird and growing like a weed.
I had put 4 breeder eggs in a week after them in case just one hatched, so Becque now has two Khaki Campbell cross friends called Tsuki and Hoshi so she isn’t lonely.
And as of today’s 7am Quacking - Becque is a female! Which means she’s capable of laying eggs and therefore I have pirated a duck.

For those of us in the US, there are lots of reports of Trader Joe's eggs being fertilized.... worth investigating if you have a local Trader Joe's and an incubator or good broody hen...
This is far from new.
If we band together we
can stop evictions.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
The first promoted post I saw was just a dozen pictures of someone's cat so maybe this feature will be ok
The second was the whole ass bee movie script so maybe it won't
happy early birthday to op's dead sponsored weed mom who is finally blazing one more time
Tumblr Blaze is very good because tumblr correctly deduced that if they ran a real advertising service using targeted demographics we’d have burnt this site to the ground, but ALSO correctly deduced that we would be overjoyed to collectively pay large amounts of money to spread shitposts onto completely random dashes in a delighted flurry of slightly malicious mischief. You really do gotta hand it to em on this one, A+ problem solving.






























